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No. 498,391. Patented May 30,1893.

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' UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

KENDALL s. HAWK, or NEAR MEOHANIOSBURG, orno.

.STRAW OR HAY HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,391, dated May 30, 1893. Application filed January 14,1893. Serial N0.458,366- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, KENDALL S. HAWK, a citizen of the United States, residing near Me chanicsburg,in the county of Ohampaign and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefullmprovemen'ts in Strawor Hay Hooks;

and I do declare the following to be. a full,

marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. r I The special object of the invention; is to make a vehicle forkor hookwhich may be driven perpendicularly into a rick or stack of hay or straw, as is done by hand with a common fork, so that as large abunch as possible may be lifted OE and transported byahorse or horses to the required distance for use or distribution. A, I

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan v1ew of the horse-fork; Fig.' 2 a perspective view,

showing the fork driven perpendicularly into the section of a rick of hay or strawithedotted lines showing'approximately the form of the hay or straw rick and the line of section,

and Fig. 3 a side-elevation, showing the bunch of hay or straw after being pulled over and how it is drawn along in dotted lines. i In the drawings; Arepresents a straight rod 1 with the pointed end a and, near thereto, the

slot of. The enda is preferably made blunt or transversely fiat so as 'to be conveniently driven by a maul or hammer into the hay or straw.

. B B are times pivoted in slot a so as to set close to the sides of the rod A while entering the rick or stack and expand to or nearly to a right angle as soon as pulled in an opposite direction. The point a forms the middle tine of the horse-fork and is of course rigidly in line with the rod A at'all times. I preferably curve the wings and provide them withthe outwardly projecting points I) b but thisform is not'necessary to theoperation. These wings V I or tinesB B are made of steel plates as thin as is consistent with the desired strength so as to make as little resistance as possible to their passage through the hay or straw.

O is a link of metal pivoted in the rod A at jv f0 and carrying'a draft-chain D-which may have a snaphookE at one end and a ring F I ,55

at the other to receive the hook, G of the single tree. I may use two forks and two horses so as to take a larger section from therick.

What I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A'rod having one end blunt and the other:

"pointed and the slot a? next to the point, two' v expansible wingson a fixed pivotin-saidlslot,

and a draft-ring between said slot and the dri ve-end ct, all combined to form a'draft-fork adapted to be driven vertically into arick or. v stack, pulled into a'horizontal position by a I horse, and then dragged to its destination.

In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.- i

' KENDALL SiHAWK.

" Witnesses:

W. G. PANGBORN, O; S. PANGBORN. 

